Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> January 31, 2005

DAVID KOSOY – STERLING CENTRECORP INC (SCF:TSX)

DAVID KOSOY is co-Chairman and co-Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Centrecorp Inc. With over 35 years of investment and development experience throughout North America and the United Kingdom, Mr. Kosoy is a well known and well respected figure in the North American real estate community. Following 15 highly successful years as a founding Principal of a Toronto-based and privately held real estate development and investment company, Mr. Kosoy directed his attention to the US where, in 1987, he founded the Sterling Realty Group of Companies. Sterling Realty Group became widely regarded as one of the preeminent shopping center investment and re-development companies in each of its selected US markets. Under Mr. Kosoy's leadership, Sterling Realty Group developed an impressive record of generating significant returns on behalf of institutional and high net worth investment partners. Mr. Kosoy is a graduate of the University of Akron, Ohio, and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. Profile
TWST: Can we start with a history and overview of Sterling Centrecorp?

Mr. Kosoy: Sterling Financial Corporation was a publicly held real

estate acquisition, management and financing company